Hannah earned her B.A. in Anthropology with a psychology minor from the University of South Carolina and graduated with Honors from the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Track and the South Carolina Honors College in Spring 2021. Her research interests include bioarchaeology, deviant burials, and comorbidities. She is currently studying under Dr. Molly Zuckerman.

Kerri graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz with a B.A. in Anthropology and minors in History and Evolutionary Studies. She has experience working in archaeological contexts through her involvement as a research assistant on the Phaleron Bioarchaeological Project at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She has also worked as an instructor for the Center for American Archeology’s Advanced Bioarchaeology and Human Osteology Laboratory Program. Her research interests include osteology, social bioarchaeology, and structural violence.

Austin graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 2021 with a B.S. in History with minors in Anthropology and Religious Studies. Austin’s research interests are paleobotany in the Near East. Specifically, how botanical remains reconstruct hierarchal systems during the Bronze Age in Syria/Palestine. Austin is also interested in reconstructing a historical environment using the Old Testament to understand the dietary practices of Israelites in the Levant during the rise of Israelite civilization.

Maria graduated in 2020 from the College of Saint Benedict with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, concentration in Anthropology, and minor in Hispanic Studies. Her undergraduate thesis explored the affective responses of Venezuelan migrants in Santiago, Chile to the State and bureaucratic entities. Maria’s research interests are environmental justice, political ecology, decolonization, and migration. Additionally, Maria is committed to community-based participatory research and using anthropological research to contest and dismantle institutionalized forms of discrimination and to aid in activist movements.

Kat attended undergraduate at the University of Tennessee Knoxville with a double major in Anthropology and Sociology with a concentration in criminal justice and criminology. In her year off between undergraduate and graduate she did CRM work based out of Moundville. Kat is interested in bioarchaeology, health and disease, and mobility.

Lauren graduated from the University of South Alabama in May 2021 with a BA in Anthropology and minor in Psychology. Her research interests include globalization, sustainable development, aid networks, geopolitics, and middle eastern cultures.

Brittany received her B.A in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures from Mississippi State University in 2018. She has been an intern at Fort Drum Cultural Resources in New York through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. She also spent time working with several Cultural Resource Management companies. She is interested in Old World Bioarchaeology focusing in the Mediterranean and the Near East, pathologies, human osteology, how religion and landscapes influenced burials, and archaeology of violence.

Daniel graduated from West Virginia University in 2021 with a BA in Anthropology. While in undergrad, he gained experience in archaeology and museum work through his time at Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex in Moundsville, WV and at Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village in Avella, PA. His research interests include Old World bioarchaeology, social identity in mortuary contexts, and Mediterranean archaeology.

Maddie graduated from Ohio University in May 2021 with a B.A in Anthropology and minors in Museum Studies and Classical Civilization. Her experience includes working at the Wayne National Forest as a Heritage Management Intern, being part of the Virtual NAGPRA Internship program at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) and working as a cultural resource management (CRM) field tech. She has also been involved in excavations in Ohio, Virginia, and northern Israel. Maddie's advisor is Dr. Shawn Lambert and her interests include archaeological theory, NAGPRA, and decolonizing archaeology.